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A platform designed to encourage students to share scientific learnings and innovation with the broader community.
Cognitive Health Screener
Cognitive Health Screener
For seniors and their caregivers and families
CogniPlay
CogniPlay
Type: iOS App
Innovator: Lucas Lum
Description: A multimodal deep-learning framework to identify cognitive health risk signals integrating speech, cognitive games, and digital health signals
Motivation: A free, AI-assisted cognitive screening tool for the underserved seniors in our community.
Cognitive Skills Screened:
Language and Lexical Retrieval
Verbal fluency
Visuospatial Skills/Perception
Attention and Executive Function
Working memory
Reaction time
Implicit / Procedural learning
Download: Coming soon!
Gamified Brain Gym
Gamified Brain Gym
For students and young adolescents interested in brain games
VocabCoach
VocabCoach
Type: iOS App
Innovator: Lucas Lum
Description: An AI-powered vocabulary learning iPhone app designed to help students build and retain vocabulary words "on-the-go" through active generative learning, real-time feedback and daily stats tracking, all without the test prep price tag.
Cognitive Skills Trained:
Verbal fluency
Semantic memory
Contextual reasoning
SnakeMP
SnakeMP
Type: Java App
Innovator: Lucas Lum
Description: SnakeMP is a competitive game where players control growing snakes on a shared grid, eat food to get bigger, and strategically influence opponents’ movement to make them crash into walls and get eliminated.
Cognitive Skills Trained:
Sustained attention
Planning / Impulse control
Motor coordination
TetrisMP
TetrisMP
Type: Java App
Innovator: Lucas Lum
Description: TetrisMP is a cooperative game where players clear lines on their own boards, but clearing lines sends additional blocks to opponents, turning the classic puzzle into a strategic battle.
Cognitive Skills Trained:
Visual-spatial reasoning
Processing speed / Reaction time
Task switching
Science Research
Science Research
For anyone interested in student-led scientific research
Seaweed Biofabric
Seaweed Biofabric
Type: Prototype
Scientist: Saria Lum, Riya Chatterjee
Title: Beneath the Tide: Unleashing the Power of Calcium Ions and Seaweed to Create Food-Safe Biofabric
Mentor: Ms. Cathy Hsieh, Ms. Kathy Peng @ The Harker School
Awards: 2024 Thermo Fisher JIC (Top 300), 2024 CSEF (3rd), 2024 Synopsys
Showcase: Harker Symposium
Resistance is Futile
Resistance is Futile
Type: Publication
Patel, A., Lum L., Iyer, N., Rollins, K. (2025) “Simulating the Effect of Single vs. Cocktail Antibiotic Treatments on the Normal Flora in the Human Gut Microbiome.” Journal of Emerging Investigators. Copy Editing.
Researcher: Lucas Lum, Arjun Patel, Nethra Iyer
Mentor: Dr. Kirstin Rollins, PhD
Showcase: UCSB Summer Symposium
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